Respect for past Era's.

Absolutely.
Two machinery/past era museums IMHO that are worth visiting here in FNQ are;

The Herberton Historical Village-Herberton

Irvinebank museum -Irvinebank.

If you call into the information centres as you arrive into towns, they can usually give you a pretty good idea of what is in the local area.

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Ilfracombe, east of Longreach, has a street full of the stuff. There is also a terrific
steam/tractor type one in Tassie..I've forgotten the town.Griffith, NSW has a good
one too. ......oldbaz.
PS...Bookham Farm Machinery, west of Yass, while not a museum as such, has acres of old gear I'm sure you could look at ,if interested.

Its got plenty of web coverage ... but if your making a list ... Inverell NSW Pioneer Museum is good for a wander around.

Whats left of a private collection in Cooma is on display somewhere I believe ... was mainly ex snowy stuff.

.... Ohhhh ... and theres an old steam tractor rusting away at a property front gate out the back of the Warrumbungles ... LOL

Their is an excellent display of old ag tractors at Temora. Some of theses tractors are featured in Ian Johnsons book of old tractors. Their is another one in parkes which I believe has a BIG 4 tractor.
Cheers Pete

I'd be really grateful for this sort of project being undertaken. The information is what makes or breaks a place for us a lot of the time.

As well as that, places we visit are always part of the kids schooling, so yes, pleaes do!

I wonder if David could put a "Museums" category in the Places list?
Cheers
Val.

It is not tractors and old machinery, but if anybody is passing through Georgetown QLD, there is a Fantastic mineral and rock display at the information centre. Admission is charged, but well worth it.

Mareeba has a good museum of old agricultural equipment at the information centre.

and many charge to much to get in. My parents travel a lot and have to watch their money, and they would go into every museum especially agricultural museums. For example Kadina in SA want $8 an adult. Realise these places cost money to run, but if they did not charge so much more would go. Another one that springs to mind my parents told me was the Fishes museum Canowindra, NSW. These country towns need all the business they can get and charging high prices does not keep people in town. I know from my folks all these old folk travellers talk and swap good places and locations. Then my folks tell me there are some towns that should not bother like Burra, SA the Tourist Info were rude, the people at the museum could not chase them out quickly enough and it was early. They said they can afford to be rude there are so many people there and don't care.

Thanks you all for your responses. I think that Paul has nailed it. There is a lot of memorabilia at odd spots and most of it has a very interesting history. It is not all in formalised museums that need to charge for access. Collecting the information for these sorts of places is what I think would make our travels just that little bit more interesting..Contrary to some opinions my years of web trawling don't bring up a lot. The better known places receive a good coverage but there are in my view many many more that are not well documented and the local visitor centres are generally speaking good but not always and not always open. Thanks for your views.

If you around Bunbury WA and interested in all things old, especially tractors & such then this museum at Dardanup is not to be missed.

Cheers Neil